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Barbados to become a republic: What it means for the Crown, the Commonwealth and Canada
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle call on Commonwealth to acknowledge its past: ‘Right those wrongs’ The country was shaped by its history of exploited people.During the so-called Sugar Revolution, an estimated 387,000 Africans were captured and shipped to the island against their will to work on plantations.As Barbados moves to become a fully sovereign country, Prime Minister Mia Mottle says it will allow young boys and girls to not only dream about one day becoming the head of state but now they will be able to make it a reality.“We respect our heritage but who we are as a people today, (we) are proud Barbadians who are not better than anyone else but as good as anyone else,” Mottley said.